Steve Blank

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Fly High

Steve Blank

The Coast Guard Academy opened in New London Connecticut in 1876. Over 40% get the military to pay for their college by joining via the Reserve Officers Training Corps ( ROTC ) program. The Air Force, originally part of the U.S. Army, wasn’t an independent military branch until 1947, set up their academy in 1955 in Colorado Springs.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

The Coast Guard Academy opened in New London Connecticut in 1876. Over 40% get the military to pay for their college by joining via the Reserve Officers Training Corps ( ROTC ) program. The Air Force, originally part of the U.S. Army, wasn’t an independent military branch until 1947, set up their academy in 1955 in Colorado Springs.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

So much so that the NSF decided to scale the Innovation Corps program. And to help teach these many teams, the NSF will recruit other universities that have engineering entrepreneurship programs to become part of the Innovation Corps network. Principal Investigator: Yu Lei University of Connecticut. Congressman Lipinski Gets It.

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